Plunging beneath the surface
On the docks of late 18th-century Rhode Island, two runaway slaves find love and a near-drowned man. With a motley band of sailors, they plan a desperate and daring run to freedom. As the mysteries of their identities come to light, painful truths about the past and present collide and flow into the next generation. Acclaimed playwright Naomi Wallace’s newest work brings to life a group of people whose stories have been lost in history. Told with lyricism and power, The Liquid Plain was commissioned through OSF’s American Revolutions: the United States History Cycle and is the winner of the 2012 Horton Foote Prize for Promising New American Play. (Contains strong profanity, explicit sexuality and vivid descriptions of the violence of the slave trade.)
Development of The Liquid Plain supported in part by a grant from The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust.